Professions of the future: what to study to succeed in the competition with robots
Growing inequality, the extinction of occupations due to automation of working processes and other problems of a rapidly changing labour market today make us nervous and to think about finding their place in the world of the future.
By 2050, there will be a new class of people whose experience, skills and education will be totally unfit in the society. For such “useless people” just will not be suitable work.
Their appearance is predicted in her latest book, Homo Deus, one of the most famous futurists, historian and author Yuval Noah Harari. Such a prospect threatens those who are “deprived of any value in the economic, political, or even artistic terms, those who do not contribute to the prosperity of society,” says the scientist.
Growing inequality, the extinction of occupations due to automation of working processes and other problems of a rapidly changing labour market today make us nervous and to think about finding their place in the world of the future.
According to published this year to study “the work of the future. What forces will shape the reality in 2030”, conducted by PwC, 74% of respondents in China, Germany, India, Britain and the United States is ready to acquire new skills and even completely changing my major just to stay in professional demand.
Passion and flexibility
“The generation of my parents in an average life changed about five works. My generation has doubled that number to 10. And should we expect the same trend in subsequent generations,” — said Zach Klein, the founder of educational services and DIY JAM S, as well as the founder and designer of the video service Vimeo.
It is now impossible to spend a lifetime on the development of one skill and make a career out of it. That era is gone. Zach Clintondale educational services and DIY JAM S
Harari sure that most of the skills that children are acquiring in schools will become irrelevant by the time when these children turn 40.
The question how to prepare children for jobs of the future that don’t exist yet, Klein said that you should start with reforming the education system.
In the US, for example, according to him, very little attention is paid to the interaction of students in the educational process, instead, the emphasis is on competition.
In his projects he tries to create an environment where students of any age can teach something to another child or surprise your results the older guys and also get feedback on their work.
Service DIY and pay-analogue JAM allow children anywhere in the world to develop interesting skills to share with online friends experience, discuss projects and teach each other.
“In a normal school the teacher gives homework and gets in response a lot of the same work. And in General, the school operates a system where somebody looks at children from the top down,” says Klein.
[In school] we’re trying to get kids to be distracted from the really curious things and concentrate on developing a certain skill. But they already have it! We just need to stop making them to focus on one thing.Zach Clintondale educational services and DIY JAM S
Now we see people who choose a certain profession in his youth, grow up and realize that society no longer needs. According to Klein, in order to avoid this, you need a child to teach people to be flexible and easy to drop from classes that do not ignite sparks into them.
Klein emphasizes that the school remains the main environment where children acquire knowledge: “There the child has a social context. School is the best that we have, but in situations where it is not possible to learn what you’re interested, the Internet gives you a new chance.”
The neural network is not an enemy but a friend
Company Sana Labs, developing a new learning system based on artificial intelligence, unlike the DIY does not focus on the interactivity of teaching and involvement in the community of disciples, and on personalization of the educational process.
Creator and head of the Sana Joel Gellermark believes it is important to combine three factors: personalized learning, use of neural networks, and online education. The main purpose of his project is to learn how to hold the attention and interest of the student in the learning process as long as possible.
To achieve this, Gellermark and his team are going with predictions of a “smart” program.
After analyzing the behavior and the reaction of the learner on a particular task, the program will know what to offer him in the next paragraph learning that he was bored and he better have learned the material.